Characters have their own lives outside of what you do, and you'll find them moving about the town, perhaps going to the bar, going to work, farming, and even settling down to sleep in their own homes at night. The land in Oblivion is immense, with thickly populated towns and a vast countryside, and the game does an excellent job of making the game world seem vibrant and alive. You can choose to complete the main quest, but there are so many side quests and distractions that the main quest is only a fraction of what's available. That is the main quest of Oblivion, but it only scratches the surface of the possibilities presented by the game.

Without the king on the throne, the land of Tamriel will have portals to the hellish Oblivion all over the kingdom, allowing monsters to escape and overrun the land.

A person of the Emperor's bloodline is the only thing that can prevent the land from being thrown into chaos, as their family is responsible for keeping the various gates to monster-laden Oblivion closed.

The Emperor does have a final request of you, however: Find his illegitimate son. As you follow his escape, you eventually watch helplessly as he is killed by the assassins. Not too long after the game's opening, the Emperor of the land, voiced excellently by Patrick Stewart (of Jean-Luc Picard or Professor X fame), must make use of the secret escape route as assassins are attempting to kill him. The player begins the game as a prisoner in a deep dungeon, but has erroneously been assigned to a cell that houses a secret escape route. Finally and for the first time in gaming history, an Elder Scrolls title is making its way to a Sony console and the prognosis is in: The Elder Scrolls is as great an experience on the PlayStation 3 as it has ever been.įor those few gamers that have never heard of or played Oblivion, the open-world RPG takes place in the land of Tamriel.

Also, its predecessor, Morrowind on the original Xbox, was a much lauded game that introduced console players to the open world of the Elder Scrolls series. It was a much needed RPG for Microsoft's new system as well as a highly anticipated sequel. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was a long time coming to the Xbox 360 and to the PC, and when it arrived, it did so with the impact of a meteorite striking the earth.

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